Breaking Into SQL Showbiz
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Matthew Velic (blog, Twitter) just asked this question on Twitter:
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2010-09-20
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SQL Awesomesauce
SELECT: If ON preceeds JOIN, then how….
I got some excellent questions from my 24HOP session yesterday, and when presenting the same session at NTSSUG last night. ...
2010-09-17
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T-8d till SQL Saturday #52 (CO)
SQL Saturday: All the COOL kids are doing it!
It’s only twelveeight days until SQL Saturday #52 in Colorado! I’ll be...
2010-09-17
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Know a young IT go-getter? Get her nominated!
Yesterday, I told our Groupies: I feel give-y today. Is there anything you’d like me to promote for you? Wendy...
2010-09-15
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New Hotness: sys.sql_modules
I’m still old school in many ways. And they’re not the ways that let you get away with wearing wayfarers, or...
2010-09-15
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Brief Intro to Indexes and INCLUDE – TSQL Tuesday #10!
Content rating: Beginner
This blog was originally posted on December 17, 2009. I’ve pulled it out of the closet for...
2010-09-14
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Tip: Use System Views to Compare Column Datatypes
Let’s say that you have a staging table, that then loads to a destination table in the same database. If...
2010-09-13
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T-12d till SQL Saturday #52 (CO)
SQL Saturday: All the COOL kids are doing it!
It’s only twelve days until SQL Saturday #52 in Colorado! I’ll be...
2010-09-13
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Tip: RESTORE FILELISTONLY / WITH MOVE
As we’ve seen in recent DBARant-able tales, not everyone is completely familiar with methods of restoring SQL backup files to...
2010-09-08
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SELECT, Deconstructed
Today let’s expand on the logical processing order of SELECT that I mentioned in last week’s N Things Worth Knowing...
2010-08-31
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SUM([value]) and highest record type
Given a record mapping table: Id Initial Updated 1 1 2 2 3 4...
should i expect data types in task->export data from ssms?
Hi i recently exported a number of "to be purged resultsets " to .tsv's. ...
Question of the Day
Multiple Defaults
In my SQL Server 2022 database, I run this code:
ALTER TABLE dbo.OrderHeader ADD ModifiedStamp DATETIME CONSTRAINT df_Created_Getdate DEFAULT GETDATE() GOI decide I need to add auditing to another table and run this:
ALTER TABLE dbo.Tracker ADD Created DATETIME CONSTRAINT df_Created_Getdate DEFAULT GETDATE() GOWhat happens with these statements? See possible answers